Seesaw rocker



June 22 1926.

J. E. TAYLOR SEESAW ROCKER Filed June 27 1924 Patened June 22, 1926. A A UNITED STATES C)FFICFV JAMES E. TAYLOR, OiE'4 SANl ANTON-I0, TEXAS.

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.'Appiicaiion inea June 27, 1924. sei-.iai iro. 722,787.

This invention aims to `provide a simple. clude side pieces ,'12 and cross members 14 rocker, adapted to be used by two or more connecting` the side pieces. The rear ends o' persons, and so constructed that it will not the side pieces 12 ofthe, seats rest on the tip over endwise. Another object of the bows 1., but are not connected thereto. Di- 60v inventionl is so to construct a device that agonal braces 15 are shown. The braces are parts thereof will be yieldable, thereby givattached at 16, intermediate their ends, to ing the structure an irregular motion as it the seat supports 9 and to the side pieces 12 oscillates. of the seats 11. At their upper ends, the

It is within the province ot the disclosure braces 15 are secured at 17 to the arms 10. G5 to improve generally and to enhance the The braces 15 are attached at 18, intermediutility of devices ot that type to which the ate the ends, to the bows 1. The lower ends invention appeltains.' of the braces 15 are crossed as at 19 and are Although a preferred form ot the inven- Secured w20 to the struts 4. tion has been shown, it will be understood One of the advantages of the device is 70 that a mechanic, working within the scope that it will be practically impossible to overof what is claimed, may maire changes withtum it endwise, Villen the device is rockedr out departing from the spirit of the invenim@ the dotted line position of Figure 1, tion. it will be supported not only by the rockers In the diaWiIlgSI-Figiire l iS a Side 1- Q` but by the bows 1, and overturning of the vation wherein parts are brolren away; Figstructure, endwise, will be avoided. Since ure 2 is a. top plan; Figure 3 is a section on the rockers 2 are resilient, and since they the line 3-3 of Figure 1. are not connected to the struts or posts 4, The device forming the subject matter ot the rockers can yield as the device is oscilthis application comprises curved bows 1, lated, and the device willbegiven a peculiar 80 which are resilient. Disposed below the bows jumping motion which will appeal to a 1 and located symmetrically with respect to juvenile occupant. It -is to be observed the bows, so far as the length of the bOWS that, from the point 21 where the bows 1 is concerned, are curved rockers 2 which are and the rockers 2 are connected, to the upresilient, the bows and the rockers ordinarily per ends 22 of the bows, the bows are ab- 85 being made of wood. The rockers 2 have solutely free and are not joined to the seat a more pronounced curvature than do the 11 or to the arms 10. This gives the backs bows 1. Securing elements 3 connect the for the seats resiliency and freedom of moends ci the rockers 2 with the bows 1. tion, as the occupants of the seats press back- Struts 4 are secured at their upper ends, as wardly and produces added irregularity in 90 at 5, to the bows 1. The rockers Q'are enthe movement ot the device as it is oscillated. v gaged intermediate their ends by the .struts hat is claimed is 4, but are not secured to the struts. The 1. In a device ofy the class described curved bows 1 carry a platform made up of slats bows, seats located adjacent to the ends of 6 attached to the bows by securing devices the bows, the bows being extended behind 7. The securing elements 8 which connect the seats to form backs therefor, and curved the ends of the rockers 2 with the bows 1 rockers located below the bows and mountmay also pass through the endmost slats V6, ed on the intermediate portions of the bows, as indicated in Figure 1, to aid in holding the rockers lbeing of a more pronounced curthe said slats and to form a iirm anchorage vature than the bows, whereby the interme- 100 for the securing elements 3. The bows 1 diate portions of the rockers and the interare provided at the upper ends with a back mediate portions of the bows will support including slats 8. the device when the same is rocked toward Vertical seat supports 9 are secured at an extreme position. their lower ends to the bows 1 in alinement 2.v In a device of the class described, 105 with the ends of the rockets 2, and in abutcurved bows seats located adjacent to the ient with the outer edges of the terminal ends of the bows, and curved rockers loslats 6 of the bottom. The seat supports 9 cated below the bows and secured at their carry arms 10 which extend backwardly beends, to the bows, the rockers being shorter tween the back slats 8 into engagement with than the bows, and being resilient.

the bows 1. The arms im 10 arenotconnected to 3. A device of the class described. conthe bows 1. Seats 11 are provided and instructed as set forth in claim 2, and further characterized by the fact that those portions of the bows which lie between the ends of the rockers and the extremities of the bows are resiliently movable, independently of the seats.

4. In a device of the class described, curved bows, and seats supported from the intermediate portions ot the bows, the ends of the bows forming the backs of the seats and beingi resiliently movable relatively to the seats when the occupants of the device press against the backs.

5. A device of the class described, constructed as set forth in claim 4, and further characterized by curved resilient rockers located below the bows and attached at their ends to the intermediate portions of the bows and disposed between the seats, the rockers being shorter than the bows and being more pronouncedly curved than are the bows.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own7 I have hereto aiiiXed my signature.

JAS. E.V TAYLOR. 

